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1989 Apr 2 - 1989 Apr 28
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2655
Environmental Affairs (Environmental policy: environmental pollution: climate change; Prime Minister's seminar on the global climate, April 1989) (Part 9)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 511
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89 Apr 21 Fr Major Environment: No.10 record of conversation (Global Climate seminar) [international handling, forestry, domestic action, energy, transport, agriculture] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Apr 12 We Major Environment: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("Carbon Dioxide and Climatic Change") [energy policies have led to heavy dependence on fossil fuels] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Apr 6 Th Major Environment: David Young minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Strengthening the Montreal Protocol on Production and Consumption of Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)") [industrial and trade implications] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Apr 14 Fr Major Environment: Sir Geoffrey Howe paper for MT ("Global Climate") [international handling of climate change in medium term] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Apr 18 Tu Major Environment: Younger PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Global Climate") [not appropriate for MoD to participate in funding ERS-2 programme] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Apr 12 We Major Environment: Nicholas Ridley minute to David Young ("Montreal Protocol") [objective to ensure UK's world leadership is visibly maintained] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Apr 19 We Major Environment: George Guise minute to MT ("Today's Global Climate Meeting") [temperature change, forests] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Apr 7 Fr Major Environment: Crispin Tickell minute to Dominic Morris ("Global Climate Change: Seminar at Downing Street") [outlines of talk] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Apr 18 Tu Major Environment: Tony Newton minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Environment Committee Report on Toxic Waste: Government Response") [responses to consultation] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Apr 14 Fr Major Environment: Dominic Morris minute to MT ("Global Climate") [difference between Young and Ridley on UK bottom line on Montreal Protocol] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Apr 14 Fr Major Environment: Greg Bourne minute to MT ("Climatic Change Energy Efficiency and the Electricity Bill") [possible concessions to Lords] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Apr 19 We Major Environment: Dominic Morris minute to MT (Environment Committee Report on Toxic Waste) ["proposed little of substance that the Government did not already have firmly in hand"] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Apr 13 Th Major Environment: MacGregor PS minute to Dominic Morris ("Climatic Change") [agriculture's contribution to global warming] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Apr 17 Mo Major Environment: George Guise minute to MT ("Global Climate") [work on environmental measurement and computer modelling urgent priority] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Apr 14 Fr Major Environment: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Global Climate") [international efforts by UK, measures UK could support] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Apr 5 We Major Environment: Tony Newton minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Mrs Ruddock's Control of Pollution (Amendment) Bill") [concern about overly-draconian enforcement provisions] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Apr 12 We Major Environment: Paul Channon note for MT ("Options for Reducing Greenhouse Gases from Vehicles") [technical improvements, vehicle usage] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Apr 7 Fr Major Environment: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Environmental Cooperation") [participating in meeting will look like a climb down] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Apr 10 Mo Major Environment: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Environmental Cooperation") [MT strongly disagrees with advice given on reply to Lubbers; we remain opposed to a new international authority; requests revised draft] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Apr 7 Fr Major Environment: Ridley PS minute to Charles Powell (follow up to environment conference) [attendance, UK climate initiatives] [declassified Dec 2016]